chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Chef::Resource#epic_fail

Whether to ignore failures.  If set to `true`, and this resource when an
action is run, the resource will be marked as failed but no exception will
be thrown (and no error will be output).  Defaults to `false`.

TODO ignore_failure and retries seem to be mutually exclusive; I doubt
that was intended.

Equivalent to #ignore_failure.

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Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git
cd chef
open lib/chef/resource.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Resource-epic_fail-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/resource.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::Resource#epic_fail"

# Open pull request

gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`

hub fork

git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Resource-epic_fail-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!